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It must stink to know everyone’s future but your own. (Danger)

You’ve no idea. It’s actually cruel in my opinion. But then maybe it doesn’t matter after all since futures can and do change. Something as simple as you’re supposed to turn right down a street one day…and in your bones you know it, and yet for reasons no one understands, you decide to debunk fate and go left. Now instead of meeting the spouse of your dreams and having a house full of kids, you get flattened by an ice-cream truck and spend the next five years in physical therapy. And all because you exercised free will and turned the opposite way on a whim. (Alexion)”

― Sherrilyn Kenyon, Sins of the Night

“Because people learn from their mistakes, Danger. Pain and failure are a natural part of life. It's kind of like a parent who watches their child fall down while learning to walk. Instead of coddling the child, you set them back on their feet and let them try again. They have to stumble before they can run. (Alexion)

Do you really believe that we need to have our hearts ripped out? (Danger)

A flower can't grow without rain. (Alexion)

Too much rain and it drowns. (Danger)

And yet the most beautiful of the lotus flowers are the ones that grow in the deepest mud. (Alexion)”

― Sherrilyn Kenyon, Sins of the Night

“Then let me put it to you this way. There is seldom black and white in our world. Sometimes things we perceive as good have moments of profound evil, but profound evil will always tell you that it’s always good. It never admits that it could, in any way, be evil. (Alexion)”

“Nothing is ever truly set by fate. In one blink, everything changes. Even though it should be a clear, sunny day, the softest whisper into the wind can become a hurricane that destroys everything it touches. (Acheron)”

“You do know that as a small child, they actually carried me around on a pillow? I had a custom-made helmet that I had to wear until I was four. (Chris)

That’s because you banged your head every time you got angry. I was afraid you were going to get brain damage from it. (Wulf)

The brain is fine. It’s my ego and social life in the toilet. I shudder at what you’re going to do to the kid. (Chris dropped his voice and imitated Wulf’s lilting Norse accent.) Don’t move, you might get bruised. Oops, a sneeze, better call in specialists from Belgium. Headache? Odin forbid, it might be a tumor. Quick, rush him for a CAT scan. (Chris)”

― Sherrilyn Kenyon, Kiss of the Night

Boy, you better check that tone. (Wulf)

Yeah, yeah, ya scare me. I’m even wetting my pants while in your terrifying, gut-wrenching presence. See me shiver and quiver? Ooo, ahhh, ooo. (Chris)”

― Sherrilyn Kenyon, Kiss of the Night

“You’re a wondering soul, looking for a peace that doesn’t exist. Lost you will be until you find the one inner truth. We can never hide from what we are. The only hope is to embrace it.’ (Old Seer)”

― Sherrilyn Kenyon, Kiss of the Night

“No, see the slide’s too high. He could fall and get a concussion. (Wulf)

Forget that. He could rack himself on the teeter-totter. (Chris)

Teeter-totter nothing. The swings are a choking hazard. Whose idea was it for him to have this? (Urian)”

― Sherrilyn Kenyon, Kiss of the Night

“Why can’t you ever answer a simple question? (Wulf)

Ask me a simple question and you will get a simple answer. (Acheron)”

― Sherrilyn Kenyon, Kiss of the Night

“We’re so screwed. (Cassandra)

Yeah, well, I don’t let anyone screw me until they kiss me, and since there’s not even a snowball’s chance in hell of me kissing that bastard, we’re not screwed. (Wulf)”

― Sherrilyn Kenyon, Kiss of the Night

“Out of my way, Dark-Hunter, or I’ll kill her. (Daimon)

You know, you should have stayed in your bolt-hole one more day. Tonight’s Buffy night, and it’s a whole new episode, too. Have you any idea how angry it makes me that I have to come out here in the freezing cold to slay you when I could be at home all toasty warm, watching Sarah Michelle Gellar kick ass in a halter top? (Wulf)”

“Have you no honor? No decency? No damn brains? You don’t kill me with bullets. You just piss me off. And you just ruined my friggin’ favorite coat. For that, you die. (Wulf)”

“Dear Son,

I would call you by name, but I’m waiting for your mother to decide. I only hope she is joking when she calls you Albert Dalbert.

For weeks now I have watched your mother zealously gather her tokens for this box. She’s so afraid of you not knowing anything about her, and it bothers me greatly that you’ll never know her strength firsthand. I’m sure by the time you read this, you’ll know everything I do about her.

But you’ll never know her for yourself and that pains me most of all. I wish you could see the look on her face whenever she talks to you. The sadness she tries so hard to hide. Every time I see it, it cuts through me.

She love you so much. You’re all she talks about. I have so many orders from her for you. I’m not allowed to make you crazy the way I do your Uncle Chris. I’m not allowed to call the doctors every time you sneeze and you are to be allowed to tussle with your friends without me having a conniption that someone might bruise you.

Nor am I to bully you about getting married or having kids. Ever.

Most of all, you are allowed to pick your own car at sixteen. I’m not supposed to put you in a tank. We’ll see about that one. I refuse to promise her this last item until I know more about you. Not to mention, I’ve seen how other people drive on the roads. So if you have a tank, sorry. There’s only so much changing man my age can do.

I don’t know what our futures will hold. I only hope that when all is said and done, you are more like your mother than you are like me. She’s a good woman. A kind woman. Full of love and compassion even though her life has been hard and full of grief. She bears her scars with a grace, dignity, and humor that I lack.

Most of all, she has courage the likes of which I haven’t witnessed in centuries. I hope with every part of me that you inherit all her best traits and none of my bad ones.

I don’t really know what more to say. I just thought you should have something of me in here too.

Love,

Your father (Wulf)”

― Sherrilyn Kenyon, Kiss of the Night

“Have you ever noticed that salvation, much like your car keys, is usually found where and when you least expect it? (Acheron)”

“Life is a tapestry woven by the decisions we make.”

“Some people expect things to fall into their lap. Oh, they might work a bit for it. I'll just shake this tree, and if I shake it long enough that pretty red apple will plop right into my hand. Never occurs to them that they might have to climb the damn tree, fall out a couple times, get some scrapes and bruises before they get to that apple. Because if the apple's worth wanting, it's worth risking a broken neck.”

“I admire independence. The world would be a stronger place if we were all capable of handling life on our own. But being capable of it doesn't mean being unable to share and depend on someone else. It shouldn't mean being unwilling to. That's the romance.”

“Evil cannot and will not be vanquished by evil. Dark will only swallow dark and deepen. The good and the light are the keenest weapons.”

Doing nothing sometimes hurts more than doing something. Life doesn't come with a guarantee, which is just as well, because most guarantees are bullshit.”

I want to cry, I want to crawl into a big hole and just cry. Why is it I let them do this to me? They make me feel like Im this big freaking failure and I hate it.



I do my best to do everything I can to make sure I have everything paid off and yet they say Im not paying them......



I truly want to cry until sleep comes and takes me away from this hell

“Time is not the great teacher. Experience is. A man may live a whole life, but if he never leaves his home to experience that life, he dies knowing nothing. A mere child who has suffered and lived can be the wiser of the two.”





― Lynsay Sands, Love Bites

Im tired, so damn tired. I dont want this bullshit anymore. Im sick of work constantly on my ass. The one person I stay for is wanting me to move up in management but I told her today I dont want to, Id rather stay with her and work for mostly her. I want to stay at this position till at least next May but if what happened today happens again I may be forced to step down because Im sick of staying quiet. Today I had to fight back and dig my nails in my hands just to stay quiet.

The one constantly riding my ass today, knew to back off this afternoon when I turned around and looked at her, hell she actually took a step back, I was freaking pissed off

I wish I could just make her proud just once, but I know I'll never be enough. I just wish I didnt care so much. I wish she wouldnt see me as some trash who shouldn't be making it.



Im doing my best as a person, as a parent, and as a daughter, but the truth is life just sucks. I'll continue to put my blood, sweat, and tears into what I want and doing for my baby girl, and show her I can do right by the both of us.



I will get what I want out of life weather or not she approves or says honey Im proud of you. But for now her ever being proud of me is a freaking pipe dream. I will get what I want, I will settle my debts, I will one day stand there and say "Mom I did it without your freaking support, thank you for giving me life, but Im done with this bullshit, until you can look at me and actually see me for who and what I am we are only blood nothing more."

“I don't want you skinny, Bride. I like you as you are." His breath tickled her neck as he spoke and sent heat all over her.

"My people have a saying. Meat is for the man, the bone is for the dog."

"Yeah, but you're both."

"And when given a choice between ribs and steak, I go for top choice every time.”



Vane

Night Play Sherrilyn Kenyon

“Life is gamble, It's harsh and painful most of the time, and it's not for the timid. Spoils go to the victor, not to the one who doesn't even show up for the battle."

Acheron

“We can't change what we've done, but we can always change what we're going to do.”

“Ren frowned as he surveyed the madness they were knee-deep in. “Why are you under such heavy fire?”

Nick gave him a droll stare. “Oh, I don’t know. But we’re really enjoying it. Fear has such a wonderfully romantic scent to it that they ought to turn it into cologne and deodorant. Eau de Ew. Let’s all just take a minute, and bask in it.”

― Sherrilyn Kenyon, Time Untime

“Love isn’t an obligation. You don’t owe someone your loyalty and you damn well don’t owe them your heart. It’s an emotion, and it’s born from mutual respect and generosity. It is not cruel and it is not judging. It comes from a willingness to live in complete and utter misery for the benefit of another. But when it’s real, you don’t feel that misery at all. The thought of their face, the scent of their skin brings a light to that darkness so bright that it drives out everything else.”

- Ren Waya”

― Sherrilyn Kenyon, Time Untime

“If we're lucky, we find the one person who will hold our trust and keep it sacred and safe against all attackers. That one soul who will restore our belief that people are decent and kind, and that life, while messy, is still the most wondrous gift anyone can know. But until that day comes, we have to try and remember that home isn't a specific place or person. It's a feeling we carry inside ourselves. That touch of the divine that lights a fire inside us that burns out the past and consumes the pain until nothing is left but a warmth that allows us to love others more than ourselves. A warmth that only grows when we do right even while others seek to do us wrong. Peace is knowing that one life, no matter how trivial it seems, touches thousands of others, and learningto respect that about all people. While you may not mean much to the world, to those who know and love you, you are their entire world. And it is knowledge that no one can hurt you unless you allow them to. The only power they have isn't something they're taken or demanded. It's what we give them by choice. And while it is imperative that we value the lives of others, it is equally important to value our own.”

― Sherrilyn Kenyon, Time Untime

“Life is messy, Ren. It's not easy and it's definitely not for the timid. Everyone has a past. Things that stab them right between the eyes. Old grudges. Old shame. Regrets that steal your sleep and leave you awake until you fear for your own sanity. Betrayals that make your soul scream so loud you wonder why no one else hears it. In the end, we are all alone in that private hell. But life isn't about learning to forgive those who have hurt you or forgetting the past. It's about learning to forgive yourself for being human and making mistakes. Yes, people disappoint us all the time. But the harshest lessons come when we disappoint ourselves. When we put our trust and our hearts into the hands of the wrong person and they do us wrong. And while we may hate them for what they did, the one we hate most is ourself for allowing them into our private circle. How could I have been so stupid? How could I let them deceive me? We all go through that. It's humanity's brotherhood of misery.”

― Sherrilyn Kenyon, Time Untime

I accidentally got two different boxes for brownies so it wasn't made exactly correctly. When it was supposed to have been finished baking it was still gooey just basically hot brownie mix.

The kids said they wanted it that way so they got molten lava brownies.

The mixes were fudge brownies and dark chocolate brownies. Next time I need to make sure what I grab and not be an idiot. Luckily they like it though.